I get lots of protein thank you very much!
from Beaver@lemmy.ca to vegan@lemmy.world on 11 Sep 2024 21:35
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from Beaver@lemmy.ca to vegan@lemmy.world on 11 Sep 2024 21:35
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Current international recommendation is 0.8g of protein for every kg you weigh.
Who do these ridiculous vegoons think I am? Someone who can incorporate easy, dirt-cheap, tasty, endlessly varied, widely available, shelf-stable, and extremely healthy foods like legumes into my diet?
B12 is actually something that I think about. Not very hard, it’s a once a month pill, but definitely more than protein.
Why not yeast? In powder form or whatever. Does that not feel more like eating food than popping a pill? Serious question, not being facetious.
I don’t have a problem with medication/supplements. I personally don’t have a problem with popping a pill once in a while instead of a factory farmed animal taking an injection on my behalf once in a while.
Hard to argue with that. But from the point of view of convincing others, I do worry about the optics of a diet that requires what looks like a medical supplement.
Personally this is my red line and why I won’t (for now) go completely vegan (I eat eggs). But the yeast approach strikes me as the obvious way of sort-of squaring the circle - i.e. having a diet that consists only of actual food that occurs in nature.
Anyway, this is just pontification in the name of debate. I know that’s a risky proposition in this forum but I’m doing it anyway! Absolutely not a criticism of you or veganism, which I respect very much.
Wow a once-a-month pill? We’re taking ones once a day. Didn’t even know they came in such high concentrations
They do in Romania at least. B12 is fat soluble, which makes life much easier.